By Rose Mitchell,Andrew Janes
The textual content explores who the mapmakers have been, the needs for which the maps have been made, and what it tells us in regards to the politics of the time. nice photos are followed via compelling tales. Featured is a woodcut map of sixteenth Century London, a map of the place the bombs fell throughout the moment global conflict, and a map the 1st American settlers' drew after they have been trying to determine a brand new empire on Roanoke Island, off the coast of what's now North Carolina.
Richly illustrated with huge scale reproductions of the maps, the e-book additionally comprises a few of the extra fun or esoteric maps from the nationwide information, reminiscent of the map of the good Exhibition in 1851 that was once awarded on a lady's glove, a London Underground map within the kind of a cucumber, and a Treasure Island map used to promote nationwide Savings.
This is an interesting and weird trip throughout the global of maps and mapmakers.
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